Couldn't Get it in the House!

[BrianB]

About the only way that I know to facilitate the listening of "old-time" radio broadcast's on antique radio's is to buy the desired CD or tape with the audio on it that you want and cable up the source to a Signal Generator.

I have an old Eico 324 Signal Generator that I use to adjust/tune old radios when I repair/restore them and they will perform this trick like a champ. You just have to make sure that you don't break FCC rules by having an antenna over 10 feet long.

[Kilroy]

Hmmm, you could get people thinking they were living a Twilight Zone episode with that trick....

[Marketblandings]

Amen to that, bronzegiant! I have totally abandoned terrestrial radio. It's just a junk heap. But Internet radio rocks!

[Marketblandings]

A couple other tricks, BrianB: a surprising number of these old radios have aux inputs (or phono inputs - crystal cartridge phono inputs that can handle a line level signal). I am also going to find the right entry point into the output amp in a coulr of these radios (or would it be into an earlier stage of the radio? I'm a little foggy on just how big a line out signal from another consumer audio device is).
Also for the old radios with (non-Armstrong) FM, there's those 10 dollar FM transmitters for Mp3 players!